Revision as of 06:28, 16 August 2013

This document describes how to install the CyberPower UPS daemon. The main advantage of using a CyberPower UPS is that it is cheap and it can communicate with your Linux box through either a RS-232 or USB serial connection. In the event of a prolonged power outage, should the CyberPower UPS lose most of its battery capacity, it can tell the Linux box to perform a safe shutdown.

Download and Extract the package

Install Procedure

The latest PowerPanel version 1.2.3-0, only include support for rc.d, as such some manual intervention is needed.
Using the included install.sh file as template, it needs to be modified for systemd so it should look like this: